Summary
Enterprise Application on Lightweight 5G Telco Edge is a blueprint under 5G/MEC system blueprint family. It intends to provide a edge computing platform along with application orchestration & management to host enterprise applications on lightweight 5G Telco Edge. BP also intend to provide platform for enterprise application developers to develop, test, package & onboard their applications easily & quickly, thereby empowering developers to innovate & ship faster. Also eventually BP aims to provide platform capabilities and features for "MEC in an Enterprise Setting"
This release focus has been majorly to add following main components/features
- Application orchestration with support for Multi Tenancy
- Platform for Application Developer for faster development, test, packaging and onboarding
- Application repository to launch applications.
- Platform components & application for ROBO use case
- Add platform features like DNS, LB, Network Isolation.
Release Scope
The edge computing platform(s) (MEP) needs to be installed at the telco edge(s) and Application development/management related components (MECM (MEO+MEPM), AppStore, Developer Platform) needs to be installed in Telco's cloud (private/public). Edge computing platform (MEP) provides a platform as a service environment for running "Enterprise Applications"
In order to be useful in this release, BP requires following pre-requisites:
- 5G RAN & UPF to enable connectivity & have configurations based on use case need.
- Also 5Gc and OSS system needs to be in place with desired configurations.
- Additionally need following configuration on UPF
- DNS Redirection rules (for redirection to DNS server hosted on BP's Edge Platform)
- Traffic rules to enable communication with Enterprise application hosted on Edge Platform.
Note:
- 5G RAN, UPF, 5Gc, OSS are not in scope of BP.
- In order to test this BP functionality in LAB environment a 3 node setup with Traffic generator (or any IP based UE) direct connection with Edge Platform would be sufficient and same is done in BP validation Lab (R4 - Test Documentation of Enterprise Applications on Lightweight 5G Telco Edge (EALTEdge))
What is released
Components of the release (Akraino new)
As part of this release EALTEdge blueprint released below mentioned components:
OCD (One Click Deployment) Node Components
- Ansible-playbook based single command for EALTEdge environment installation.
- Command Line Interface for installation of various components of EALTEdge Platform.
CENTER Node Components
- MECM
- Appstore
- Developer Platform
EDGE Node Components
- MEP Agent
- MEP Server
- Applcm (MEPM)
Note: For details, please refer to Architecture Document (R4 - Architecture Documentation of Enterprise Applications on Lightweight 5G Telco Edge (EALTEdge)#PlatformArchitecture)
Dependencies of the release (Upstream Projects, Patches)
| S. No | Software | Version | Remarks |
| 1. | Edge Gallery | 0.9 | |
| 2. | Kubespray | 2.14.2 | |
| 3. | Docker | 19.03+ | |
| 4. | Kubernetes | v1.17.2 | |
| 5. | K3S | 1.19.4+ | |
| 6. | Helm | 3.0.2 | |
| 7. | Grafana | 7.1.1 | |
| 8. | Calico | 3.16.5 | |
| 9. | RabbitMQ | 3.7 | |
| 10. | Prometheus | 9.3.1 | |
11. | Vault | 0.5.0 | |
| 12. | Cert-Manager | 0.15.0 | |
| 13 | OpenEBS | 2.3.0 | |
| 14. | Velero | 1.5.2 | |
| 15. | InfluxDB | 2.0 |
Upgrade Procedures
Not Applicable
Release Data
Enhancements
Not Applicable
Functionality changes
Not Applicable
Upstream Software Version Changes
Not Applicable
Features
# | Name | Category | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Lightweight MEC | Platform | Lightweight MEC solution including Edge (MEC Host) & Platform Manager (MEPM) |
| 2. | OCD | Deployment Tool | One click deployment of Center & multiple edge nodes |
| 3. | Mutli-Arch and Multi-OS Support | Platform | Heterogeneous deployment with support of Multi-Arch & Multi OS. |
| 4. | Bootstrap Script | Platform Feature | Installation scripts for EALT Platform |
| 5. | Secret and Certificate Management. | Platform Feature | Cloud Native Secret and Certificate Generation and Management |
| 6. | Edge Gallery and services | Platform feature | MEP, MECM (MEO + MEPM), Appstore and Developer platform features from Edge Gallery |
| 7. | Light weight Storage | Platform Feature | EALTEDGE uses Open-Ebs for storage. It is a Kubernetes native hyperconverged lightweight storage solution. |
| 8. | Backup and Restore | Platform Feature | EALTEdge uses Velero - An open source tool to safely backup and restore, perform disaster recovery, and migrate Kubernetes cluster resources and persistent volumes |
| 9. | Common DB | Platform Feature | Time Series Database (InfluxDB) |
| 10. | Network Isolation | Platform Feature | Provides separation of control, management and data plan |
| 11. | DNS | Platform Feature | DNS server provided by platform |
| 12. | Load Balancer | Platform Feature | MetalLB for LB |
Version change
2.0.0
Module version changes
N/A
Document Version Changes
Version No. | Date | Author | Rationale |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0.1 | 04-Dec-2020 | EALTEdge Blueprint Team | First Draft |
Deliverable
Software Deliverable
Software is available in https://gerrit.akraino.org/r/admin/repos/ealt-edge
Documentation Deliverable
R4 - API Documentation Enterprise Application on Lightweight 5G Telco Edge (EALTEdge)
R4 - Architecture Documentation of Enterprise Applications on Lightweight 5G Telco Edge (EALTEdge)
R4 - Installation Documentation of Enterprise Applications on Lightweight 5G Telco Edge (EALTEdge)
R4 - Release Notes of Enterprise Applications on Lightweight 5G Telco Edge EALTEdge
R4 - Test Documentation of Enterprise Applications on Lightweight 5G Telco Edge (EALTEdge)
Fixed Issues and Bugs
Not Applicable
Known Limitations, Issues and Workarounds
System Limitations
N/A
Known Issues
N/A